Queen of the Bohemian Dream

by Lorraine Treanor
Wow. Queen of the Bohemian Dream opens July 21. 20 days to opening, and just this morning I got the website up, and postcard art submitted to the printer. I love producing. But it’s a job only a masochist would do more than once. Producing is a real roll of the [...]

The Phantom of the Opera

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Charles Hart
Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe
Directed by Harold Prince
Presented by The Kennedy Center
Reviewed by Gary McMillan
A recent Playbill.com headline announced “Cat Destroys Lloyd Webber’s Phantom Sequel Score.” Well, Phantom’s run has surpassed the phenomenal run of Cats - so it’s not surprising that a really pissed [...]

Dori Berinstein on Show Business

SHOW BUSINESS - IN IT FOR THE LOVE
Interviewed by Joel Markowitz
Produced by Lorraine Treanor
Dori Berinstein has been an insider on the Broadway scene for the past 15 years, a self-described hands-on producer of major shows - most of them hits. She’s no steely eyed, heartless number cruncher.   She’s cute, with an easy laugh. She wears [...]

Warehouse Theater to Close by Inches

The Warehouse, a café and multi-stage theater facility operating on 7th Avenue near the Convention Center, will close its bar and second stage in September preparatory to finding a new home, Producing Director Paul Rapport has announced.
“When we reopen in September (after a month-long August vacation in which the entire facility will be closed) we will be [...]

Welcome to DC Theatre Scene

DC THEATRE REVIEWS IS DEAD!   LONG LIVE DC THEATRE SCENE 
All right, it’s not that big a deal.  It’s just that this site has become so much more than reviews - it’s podcasts, news flashes, ticket deals, color and atmosphere - and “DC Theatre Reviews” just seemed kind of limiting.
So we changed our name and URL. And we changed [...]

Marc Kudisch on Witches of Eastwick

Witches of Eastwick
Signature Theatre
Interviewed by Joel Markowitz
Produced by Lorraine Treanor
Marc Kudisch, who plays devil incarnate Darryl Van Horn, lays it on the line about Signature’s Witches of Eastwick.  It’s an adult musical with sex, bite and edge. New York’s been waiting for a show like this for years. .. A little dark. A little dirty. [...]

Meet the Witches: Emily, Jacqueline and Christiane

The Witches of Eastwick
Signature Theatre
Interviewed by Joel Markowitz
Produced by Lorraine Treanor
Broadway divas Emily Skinner, Jacqueline Pirot Donovan and Christiane  Noll are the three shunned divorcees of Eastwick, RI who become the high flying Witches.  This coven knows how to have a good time. Between laughs, they talk about their characters, about being onstage with the [...]

Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

Music by Froggy Moody.  Lyrics by various artists.  Narrative by David J. Taylor
Produced by Landless Theatre Company
Directed by Andrew Lloyd Baughman
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Unspeakable living conditions, beggars, prostitutes, pickpockets, hideous death, surgical dismemberment, and rock-n-roll.  What could be cooler than that, eh?
Unfortunately, Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, is - and there is no other way [...]

Show Business - The Movie - Comes to Town

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Meet filmmaker Dori Berinstein in Person Tuesday, June 26
It’s finally here.  The tell-all documentary Show Business: The Road to Broadway which opened last month in New York has just begun its run at the comfy  E Street Cinema and filmmaker Dori Berinstein takes questions next Tuesday following the 7:45 showing.
Find out how 2004’s Caroline, or Change, Taboo, [...]

Souvenir

Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
By Stephen Temperley
Produced by Studio Theatre
Directed by Serge Seiden
Reviewed by Gary McMillan
Studio Theatre’s local premiere of Souvenir is a thorough delight, a finely crafted play that is perfectly showcased and wonderfully performed. Studio has brought local theatre-goers a two-character, master-class gem.
Lovable raconteur Cosme McMoon (J. Fred [...]

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